Bailey Alexander: Dreams from Northern Italy

My guy dropped me off at Marco Polo airport. He had other places to go, so I went it alone. Someone’s got to celebrate my best brag, living 2 hours from Venice, might as well be me. Took the ferry and found it surprisingly warm with all the body heat. First night was drizzly, yet…

Not an obvious choice but a terrific monument to see when visiting Venice. The Palazzo del Bovolo was chosen by Orson Welles as one of the main locations for his 1952 adaption of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. If you can’t visit Venice this year, you can certainly watch the movie.

Allot to take in. And, whenever I listen to these interviews, to these guys from the CIA, the National Security State, etc – whenever I hear them talk truth I wonder, “and when did ‘you’ first realise you were working with Satin” But I do appreciate the truth tellers. Many of us are curious and…

meanwhile on Garda; calm with a soupçon of warmth

Alexander Dugin has been called ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ and Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. This conversation is worth a listen as Pepe is perpetually traveling the globe, including Russia, Euroasia and the Middle East. He’s attending all the meetings, not the think tanks. Dugan’s ideological slant is obvious, but he’s also there…

As a teenager, growing up in Seattle, I wanted nothing more than to go to college in California. My mother supported everything, almost anything I wanted to go after – except for that. Reading Didion, I’m reminded precisely why. My mother’s San Fran, full of luncheons at the St. Francis Yacht Club and high tea…

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Don’t know about you but I miss watching the world go by when nothing seemed to happen at all….halcyon days.

Scott Ritter just got back from another month spent in Russia exploring their cultural realities, exploring the Russian soul. And he thinks the value of the interview is that Putin helped create a map into the cultural realities of Russians, what makes them tick. For the first 30 minutes Putin covered the last 1,000 years…

I’ve had the French over for dinner. But then I was living in Paris so that made sense. Here’s a photo of Godot on the table after all the French guests had left. I gave a great luncheon on that day, as we used to say. And here’s a pre dinner shot in Paris, in…